Guests & Halloween Preparations

The weekend after we got back from Disney our good friends from St. Cloud came up for a visit.

There were many four-wheeler rides, lots of food and great fun.

The older girls put on a show for us.

Auntie Shelly and Uncle Lester were up around our neck of the woods and were able to stay with us a couple of nights as well. Shelly made her famous chimichangas (and homemade chicken noodle soup!) by request of the girls and they did not disappoint! Then they challenged Shelly to a game of Beanboozled, but Shelly remained unfazed and thought they all tasted good. Hehe. Maybe she didn't really get any bad tasting ones after all.

Game of garbage with daddy...

Brynn working on homework.

It was Lego Mania this past weekend. Brynn made a house for her and me to live in. I guess Clara and daddy lived in their own house.

We finally got around to carving pumpkins on Saturday afternoon.

After carving Dana and I got ready to go out to dinner as Brynn had offered to baby-sit. Thanks, Brynn!

We were just going to go out to eat and then come home, but the girls were just watching TV and Brynn sounded like she had everything under control at home. So, we went over to the Gastropub/Fargo Billiards and I whooped Dana at ping pong. So fun. However, meanwhile, Brynn tried putting Clara to bed, but I think Clara was giving her the business a little bit and so we came pack so Brynn could go to bed too.

Halloween preparations continued on Sunday as I coerced my mom into sewing my Halloween costume. :-) Thanks, Mom!

I thought we had missed the boat for our annual Halloween preview pics as we had planned to do it on Saturday when the weather was somewhat decent, but then the wind did end up picking up and we plain ran out of time when were busy carving the pumpkins. So, we got organized after we got home today and snapped a few quick ones. Clara is reprising her wolf costume again this year and Brynn is a vampire. Super scary!

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theweckerlys said…

Love it all! Can't wait to see your costume! I love the picture of Brynn with the pencil in her hair :)

October 28, 2019 at 10:32 PM

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